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J. C. LEVI.

PEPPER GRINDER.

Patented June 24 m w ym UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULES CfLEVI, OF PATERSON, NEV JERSEY.

PEPPER-G RIN DER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,661, dated June 24, 1890.

Application tiled March 21, 1890- Serial No. 344,746. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: i

Be it known that I, JULES C. LEVI, a resident of Paterson,Passaic county, and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Pepper-Grinder, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of same, where- 1n Figure l represents a vertical central section of my improved pepper-grinder. Fig. 2 is a top view, partly broken away, of the lower part thereof; and Fig. 3 is a det-ail vertical section of the lower end of the rotary grinding-shell.

llhis invention relates to a new peppergrinder for table use-that is to say, to a vessel which is to contain kernels of pepper, which, on turning the shell of the mill will be ground to the desired extent; and the invention consists in the details of improvement hereinafter more fully specied and claimed.

My improved mill consists of the following main portions, to wit: a base A, a grindingshell B, a cap C, and a fastening-nut D. The base A has a tubular outer portion a, a perforated lower diaphragm h, from the center of which projects the stationary grindingcone d, and a central stem e, which extends upward from the center of the stationary cone CZ. The outer circumference of the cone d is serrated or roughenedto constitutea grindingsurface. The diaphragm h is perforated around the cone d to allow the ground particles to drop from the mill. The grindingshell B is a hollow truncated cone, whose contracted lower portion contains on its inner cap bear against lugs h on the shell B, so that when the cap C is grasped and turned around the stem e it will carry the shell B around with it. The nut D is screwed upon the threaded upper end of .the stem e, and conines all the parts in their desired relative positions, as in Fig. l.

To ll the mill, the nut D is unscrewed, the cap C taken off, and kernels of pepper thrown into the shell B, whereupon the parts C and D are replaced. Whenever it is desired to have a certain amount of ground pepper, the person desiring to use it takes the mill in his hand-that is to say, takes hold of the base A with one hand and of the cap C with the other, and turns the cap C as long as desired. By turning` the cap Che also turns the grinding-shell B and reduces the lower series of kernels, which lie between the grinding-surfaces d and f, to a powder, which escapes through the apertures b.

My improved grinding-mill, it will be seen, is of simple construction, can be conveniently cleaned, and is practically self-adjusting.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. In a grinding-mill, the combination of the base A, having perforated diaphragm b and'stationary grinding-cone d, and central stem e with the grindingshell B, having grinding-surfaces f, adapted to co-operate with the grinding-cone CZ and with the upper cap C, lugs g h, and nut D, substantially as herein shown and described. y

2. In a grinding-mill, the combination of the base A, having perforated diaphragm h, and stationary grinding-cone d, with the grinding-shell B, having grinding-surfacesf, adapted to co-operate with the grinding-cone d and with the upper cap C, and means, substantially as described, for connecting it with the shellB, substantially as herein shown and described.

JULES C. lLEVI.v

Witnesses:

HARRY M. TUER, LIVINGSTON EMEEY. 

